Given proper growing conditions, tuliptrees are capable of reaching several hundred feet in height, making them our largest deciduous native trees (along with Sycamore).

Tuliptree gets its name from the fragrant tulip-shaped green and orange flowers that appear mid-summer.  But you'd better grab a ladder: tuliptree doesn't usually bloom until it is 10 to 20 years old making the flowers are hard to see because they are so high off the ground and hidden in the foliage.  Tuliptree leaves, pictured above, are uniquely shaped and the undersides are a softer, lighter shade of green.

For additional information regarding the biological and ecological characteristics of tuliptree, click here.

Native to eastern United States from Vermont, west through southern Ontario and Michigan, south to Louisiana,
and east to northern Florida .